Re: [greenstone-users] OAI download problem

- the files that are downloaded (at location C:Documents andSettingsEigenaarApplication
DataGreenstoneGLIcache/karendspace.dyndns.org/oai/localhost/123456789/)are 4.oai , 7.oai and 8.oai . These are also the files that aredownloaded when I do NOT cross the 'get_doc', so I presume these files
contain the metadata. However I do not know what to do with these files.What should I do to make Greenstone extract the metadata (which are inDublin Core) ?

You are right, the .oai files are
the metadata files, which each contain an xml record for one source
document (you can open and check it in notepad or web browser). To build a collection using these files, check out here. There is also a sample collection about OAI in
here.

Instead of downloading metadata from DSpace, you can also use the
export feature of DSpace combined with Greenstone's DSpace plugin and
unknown plugin to move the content between the two systems. Here is a
great article about this in the D-Lib magazine: StoneD A Bridge between Greenstone and DSpace.

I tried downloading three files whiwh have in my DSpace identifiernumbers: 123456789/4, 123456789/7 and 123456789/8

- there is a srcdocs drectory, but it is empty. It is at the location:C:Documents and SettingsEigenaarApplicationDataGreenstoneGLIcache/karendspace.dyndns.org/oai/localhost/123456789/srcdocs

To figure out why the source docs were not retrieved, check the log output. Did you see anything regrading that?

Here is another way to find out what happened. In one of the downloaded
.oai files, the record element contains a field called
<identifier>, which should contain a url. Copy it into a web
browser's address bar, do you see the source document that you have in
your repository? If not, then you have to go back and modify the OAI
record to point to the correct source doc location.